The Eighth Karmapa, however, asserts that shravaka and pratyekabuddha aryas have this nonconceptual cognition of the voidness of only the five aggregate factors of experience (phung-po lnga, Skt. panca skandha; five aggregates), the twelve stimulators of cognition (skye-mched bcu-gnyis, Skt. dvadasha ayatana), and eighteen sources of cognition (khams bcu-brgyad, Skt. ashtadasha dhatu) associated with their own mental continuums, as well as of untainted true pathway minds (zag-med lam-bden; uncontanimated true paths).

After attaining break-through, the former progress through the various stages of leap-ahead, one by one, spanning the ten levels of bhumi-mind (sa-bcu) of arya bodhisattvas, until their attainment of enlightenment.